What Do You Think?
Who runs our school? We think that the answer to this question should be that we all do. That's why we frequently encourage both our pupils and their parents to share their thoughts with us. During our last Ofsted the inspection team were astounded at the number of responses which they received to their own parental questionnaire. They felt that it indicated how committed our parents were to helping the school identify it's future goals. The responses were so positive that they judged the school to have 'Overwhelming parental support'. Click here for the results of our own parental survey conducted in April 2008.
The things we learn from carefully examining the results of our surveys help us in two key ways. Firstly, they enable us to compare how peoples views change over time. This helps us determine the impact of the work we have done. Secondly, they help us to identify areas in which pupils and parents would like us to improve.
Currently we are running the following pupil surveys. As pupils will be given time to complete these in school we ask that parents discourage their children from completing these at home.
School Meals Survey - pupils are currently being asked to give their views on the quality of school lunches.
Anti-Bullying Survey - as a part of both Anti-bullying Week and our on-going commitment to make sure that bullying is not a problem in our school we are currently collecting the views of the children on this topic.
Pupil Survey - During January we will be asking the children to share with us their thoughts on a wide range of issues concerning their learning.